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In this country such high tech toilets would quickly become vandalised. In Singapore there are high penalties for even minor misdemeanours. At one time they wouldn’t even let men into the country if they had long hair!

They haven’t really caught on over here though have they? I wait for the cries of ‘we’ve got a bidet!’

The person who told me had a French wife but she did come from Algeria.

I also remember the old circular gents’ pissoirs in Paris where you could see the occupants’ heads and feet. It was the first time I saw a bidet in which I used to soak my feet after a day’s sightseeing. I was told that the French were a very hygienic race who washed their hands before using the toilet!

France back in the 50’s when you had to grab hold of a rope to stop you falling into the pit! Probably the same now knowing the French.

Yes, agreed Col. If you’ve enjoyed a cordial relationship there’s no point in aggravating the situation. I’ve always found that reasonable people will accept a compromise, or in your case, the legal realities.

You can usually go up to 2 metres height with a fence then you won’t have to look at him.

It’s not uncommon to find access to a neighbouring property for maintenance on a property deed. You would be perfectly within your rights to remove anything your neighbour has attached to your wall.

Two sure ways of losing money. Going to court and losing Going to court and winning!

So did I Margie initially but I researched it and came up with this plausible explanation.

'Ah'm a Derbyshire man, born and bred, strong i't'arm and wick i't'head'. The first part of this is self-evident. The second part does not mean 'weak in the head' as some people think. Rather, it means quick as in lively, from the Old Englsih Cwick.

Exothalmic goitre. I remembered it from my A level biology studies.

Skegness once O.K - but twice in one year!

It’s been freezing here today. We worked outside to assemble a newly delivered garden bench and had to lunch on hot soup to revive us. The central heating is on full blast.

I was once at a business meeting in Southern Italy when I made a passing witticism about the Mafia. "We don't make jokes about the Mafia round here!" I was curtly informed.

I spotted a very small rodent in my study a few months ago. I immediately went to Screwfix and bought an electric mousetrap. I bought a jar of peanut butter on the way back. I set the the trap and forgot all about it for months. Only last week did I open it up to find a small mummified rodent. It must have originally been brought in by one of the cats.

Over here you can’t even carry an air rifle in public without a legitimate reason for doing so - such as going to a gun club. It has to be in a closed secure carrying bag. The power has to be under 12 ft. lbs. If it’s over that you have to have a firearms certificate from the police. I believe that in Scotland a licence is required for any air weapon. My .22 air rifle is a Theoben Rapid 7 which has a seven shot magazine. It’s powered by a screw-in air bottle which is refilled from a diver’s air bottle. Having no spring it has no recoil and is virtually silent. It has an optical magnifying

There’s only eleven of them though so they could have their annual conference in his front room. (With social distancing of course!)

Recent figures show that new cases of coronavirus in Nottingham City have hit their highest level since the week of June 8th. Draw your own conclusions.

What cup size is yours then?

We had a chap in the village who had a firm that took school photographs. It was a full time job and he and his partner covered the country. He told me that the head teacher always got offered a backhander. Whether it went into school funds we will never know!

My father repaired watches as a sideline in the post war years. He was trained as an RAF instrument technician so it was a natural progression. He was never short of customers. I remember going with him to Woods on Clumber St. where he would buy spare parts. Strangely he never wore a watch himself but could uncannily guess the time to within five minutes!

I remember the ‘whole school’ ‘photos we had every couple of years at Mellish. The seating was arranged in tiers with the first years sitting on the ground and the sixth formers at the top. The staff were seated on the bottom row. The camera slowly panned round and resulted in a photograph of about three feet long. It was possible for someone to be at one end of the picture and then to race round the back and appear at the other end, although that was looked upon with disapproval!

I was thinking we never had group photographs at Arno Vale and Margie has conformed that for me. I still have some of the individual ‘photos though.

I went to Arno Vale.